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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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skets were brought into play; andfinally sabres were used on the mutilated survivors. Republican marriages were made by binding a man and a woman together and throwing them thushelpless into the river to drown. Or scores of bound couples were packed astight as possible into some old hulk of a ship, which was then sunk beneaththe water. Men had become devils. So strong was the reaction after the Reign of Terror, that royalists even be-gan to hope that the Bourbon kings would be restored to power. Immediatelyafter Louis XVI. s death, the other European countries and the exiled nobleshad recognized his little son as King Louis XVII. This had exasperated therepublicans, and they placed the child in the care of a shoemaker, Simon, to bebrought up as a common workman. Perhaps Simon had orders, or perhaps he only acted from natural savagery,but he so beat and bullied and starved his miserable apprentice, that the boyseemed but half-witted, and died in 1795, only ten years old, the last noted
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France—Rise of Bonaparte , 915 victim of the brutality of the Revolution. Abroad the brother of Louis XVI.was thereupon recognized as king, being Louis the Eighteenth and last. In the fall of 1795, a new constitution was formulated, and a new Conven-tion, the fourth of these assemblies, was elected. So strong had the royalistsbecome that they roused Paris against this Convention; and a mob of soldiersand citizens, of men and women, forty thousand strong, gathered to attack it.The Convention ordered the capturer of Toulon, General Napoleon Bonaparte,to defend them. Instead of arguing with the citizens, Bonaparte placed artil-lery so as to sweep the streets, and as the Parisians approached, his cannoneersfired too kill. It was not at all the treatment the rabble had been accustomedto. The grape-shot mowed down their ranks, and they broke and fled. Theirpower was gone, the brute part of the Revolution at an end (October 5, 1795).The new general had shown the way to silence it. Under th

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